The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History (50 page)

‘The spectacle
 . . . self-binder’
Ibid., p. 314.

‘landships’
H. G. Wells, ‘The Land Ironclads’,
The
Strand Magazine,
December 1903.

he wrote to Asquith
See Winston Churchill to H. H. Asquith, 5 January 1915, CHAR 13/44/32–35.

‘so that they are
 . . . people in them’
Winton Churchill, ‘Statement on the Introduction of the Tank’, CHAR 2/109.

‘The rollers
 . . . rolling process’
Ibid.

‘a tractor
 . . . enemy trenches’
Tennyson d’Eyncourt to Winston Churchill, 22 February 1915; Martin Gilbert,
Winston S. Churchill, vol. 4: The Challenge of War
(London: 1973), p. 553.

‘As proposed
 . . . WSC’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 298.

‘After losing
 . . . at the front’
Tennyson D’Eyncourt to Winston Churchill, 14 February 1916, CHAR 2/71/14.

‘a grave danger
 . . . as a whole’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 373.

‘That dangerous and uncertain
 . . . Whitehall’
Ibid., p. 376.

‘bellybando’
Norman McGowan,
My Years with Churchill
(London: 1958), p. 94.

‘Machines
 . . . slaughter’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 370.

14.
T
HE 100-
H
ORSEPOWER
M
ENTAL
E
NGINE

‘KBO’
See ‘Churchill: Leader and Statesman’, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/biography/biography/churchill-leader-and-statesman. Accessed 1 September 2014.

‘They say
 . . . take the chance?’
Lou Channon,
Ronald Reagan: The Presidential Portfolio—A History Illustrated from the Collection of the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum
(London: 2001).

try counting
 . . . parliamentary record
Traditionally referred to as ‘Hansard’, for Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), a London printer and publisher, the record of parliamentary proceedings in the United Kingdom may be accessed at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com.

‘My husband
 . . . quite beyond us’
Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘Churchill at the White House’ in
The Atlantic,
1 March 1965 (published posthumously). http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/03/churchill-at-the-white-house/305459. Accessed 1 September 2014.

‘limited
 . . . matters’
Norman Rose,
Churchill: An Unruly Life
(London: 1994), p. 173.

‘damned dots’
Winston Churchill,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
vol. 2 (London: 1906), p. 184.

‘speaking Persian’
William Manchester,
The Last Lion—Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
, p. 786.

‘There comes
 . . . horsepower mind’
Stanley Baldwin, ‘Churchill & His Contemporaries’ http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/myths/churchill-trivia/528-contemporaries. Accessed 1 September 2014.

‘Black dog’
Martin Gilbert,
In Search of Churchill
(London: 1995), p. 210.

‘You know
 . . . brushing your teeth’
Ibid., p. 26.

‘The principle
 . . . St George’s Day’
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
, vol. 4 (London: 1950), pp. 623–24.

‘The ferment of ideas
 . . . difficulties’
Max Hastings,
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45
(London: 2009),
p. 93.

15.
P
LAYING
R
OULETTE WITH
H
ISTORY

‘I tried to give
 . . . professions’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship
(London: 2007), pp. 98–99.

‘Tell your boss
 . . . bad sticker’
Ernst Hanfstaengel,
Hitler—The Missing Years
(London: 1957), p. 185.

‘very glad’
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War, vol. 1:
The Gathering Storm
(London: 1986), p. 40.

‘I had no national
 
. . . character’
Ibid.

‘Heil
 . . . Boothby’
Robert Rhodes James,
Robert Boothby: A Portrait of Churchill’s Ally
(London: 1991), p. 138.

‘Why is your chief
 . . . born’
Churchill,
The Second World War
, vol.1, p. 40.

‘What part
 . . . same about you’
Hanfstaengel,
Hitler
, p. 187.

‘what is the sense
 . . . born’
Roy Jenkins,
Churchill: A Biography
(New York: 2001), p. 469.

‘All these bands
 . . . weapons’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: The Power of Words: His Remarkable Life Recounted Through His Writings and Speeches
(London: 2012), p. 101.

‘the ability to foretell
 . . . happen’
Richard Langworth,
Churchill: By Himself
(New York: 2013), p. 505.

‘gross example
 . . . lives’
Martin Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
(New York: 1991), p. 286.

‘soft under-belly’
Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 11 November 1942,
Hansard
, HC Deb, vol. 385, cc8–56.

‘I thought he would die
 . . . finished’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 321.

‘chewing barbed wire in Flanders’
Mary Soames,
Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage
(London: 2003), p. 134.

‘foul baboonery’
Gilbert
, Churchill: A Life,
p. 410.

‘civilisation
 . . . victims’
Clifford Kinvig,
Churchill’s Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918–1920
(London: 2007), p. 85.

‘Nothing
 . . . regime’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 415.

‘I will not submit
 . . . baboons’
Kinvig,
Churchill’s Crusade,
p. 154.

‘He hunts lions
 . . . cats’
David Low, ‘Winston’s Bag’,
The Star
, 21 January 1920.

‘Stop This New War’
Daily Mail,
18 September 1922; Andrew Mango,
Ataturk
(London: 2004), p. 352.

‘I had the greatest difficulty
 . . . teasing her’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 465.

Keynes wrote a denunciation
See J. Maynard Keynes,
The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill
(London: 1925).

‘I would rather
 . . . content’
Geoffrey Best,
Churchill: A Study in Greatness
(London: 2001), p. 119.

‘You shall not press
 . . . cross of gold’
Michael Kazin,
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
(New York: 2006), p. 61.

‘I will make you
 . . . Chancellor’
Liaquat Ahaned,
Lords of Finesse: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World
(New York: 2011), p. 235.

‘nauseating’
Winston Churchill, 23 February 1931, Richard Toye,
Churchill’s Empire: The World That Made Him and the World That He Made
(London: 2011), p. 176.

‘We are a sort
 . . . fought for Britain’
Gilbert,
Churchill: A Life
, p. 501.

‘Make a success
 . . . much more’
Toye,
Churchill’s Empire,
p. 188.

‘Winston collapsed
 . . . years’
Paul Addison,
Churchill on the Home Front 1900–1950
(London: 1992), p. 323.

‘failure’
Robert Rhodes James,
Churchill: A Study in Failure
,
1900–1939
(London: 1981).

‘ridiculous
 . . . memorandum’
James C. Humes,
Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman
(New York: 2012), p. 32.

‘declare war
 . . .
Pagan times’
Langworth,
Churchill: By Himself
, pp. 122–23.

16.
A
N
I
CY
R
UTHLESSNESS

‘shooting fish in a barrel’
Robert Philpott interviewed in Philip Graig, ‘Mass Murder or a Stroke of Genius That Saved Britain? As Closer Ties with France Are Planned, the ‘Betrayal’ They Still Can’t Forgive’,
Daily Mail,
5 February 2010.

‘I leave it
 . . . to history’
Winston Churchill, 4 July 1940, House of Commons,
Hansard,
HC Deb, vol. 362, cc1043–51.

‘France is civilization’
Lord Moran, interview in
Life
, 22 April 1966, p. 106.